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		<title>Secular Theology</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/12/secular-theology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[No Child Left Behind law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nihilism rules the streets of Great Britain.  A normal looking Norwegian kills scores of fellow countrymen in the hopes of sparking a war against Islam.  Paris is still recovering from the Algerian riots of last year.
America loses it AAA rating.  Europe struggles to stay fiscally afloat.  Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Iceland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Visit to Moneygall</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/05/24/obamas-visit-to-moneygall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 15:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emerald Isle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wore my green tie in honor of President Obama&#8217;s visit to Moneygall yesterday.
The President was warmly received in his visit to the Emerald Isle, and he didn&#8217;t disappoint.  He drank a pint of stout in four sips, an impressive feat for any person who is not predominantly Irish.
The President was visiting this small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pot of Gold</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/03/17/pot-of-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Promises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fianna Fail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Patrick’s Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The world celebrates St. Patrick’s Day today, as millions of Irish celebrate their national heritage.
One of the most enduring myths in Ireland is of the leprechaun finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
In Washington and in State Capitols around the country, policy makers are vainly searching for rainbows in hopes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/06/14/world-cup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Big Wheels, I missed the soccer generation.
Let me explain.  My younger brother was the first in my family to get a Big Wheel, because they came out just at the right time for his height and weight.  I was too big to ever ride a Big Wheel.
And by the time soccer came to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Musings</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/06/11/friday-musings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Proposition 14]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanley Cup]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an overdone cliché to thank the good Lord for Friday, but this has been a particularly long week, so stringing a coherent column together might be beyond my capability today.  But that won’t stop me from some Friday musings.

Talk      about Chutzpah.  House Speaker Nancy     [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The March 18th Deadline</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/08/the-march-18th-deadline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Cowan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtic Tiger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fianna Fail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Patrick’s Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Euro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most people looked at the President’s March 18th health care deadline and saw a totally unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky, hail Mary pass from a guy who has set down several totally unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky, hail Mary pass deadlines in the past.
Remember, when he wanted a health care law on his desk last August?  Or when he wanted it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain and Ireland (John Feehery)</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2008/06/12/mccain-and-ireland-john-feehery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2008/06/12/mccain-and-ireland-john-feehery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
This appeared a year ago last March in The Hill pundits Blog:
I serve on the board of a charity organization called Cooperation Ireland, dedicated to promoting peace in Northern Ireland between the nationalist and loyalist communities. This organization helps fund projects focused on bringing together two communities that have rarely intermingled in the last 30 [...]]]></description>
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